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12. WHITE COLLAR AND WORKPLACE CRIME IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Discussion topics

"the education and restraint of the business class was as
much, if not more crucial to the effective function of British
capitalism during the nineteenth century as was the education of the
working class in the discipline of factory labour."

What are the parallels between the reluctance of the criminal
justice system during the nineteenth century to interfere in the
running of the commercial company and the family

Key points

• lack of sophisticated auditing and accounting systems

• laisser-faire doctrine as hindrance to effective regulation

• assumption that shame and disgrace as sufficient deterrents to fraud

Godfrey, Barry (1999) 'Law, factory discipline and 'theft':
the impact of the factory on workplace appropriation in mid to late
nineteenth-century Yorkshire. British Journal of Criminology 39: 56 - 71.

Godfrey, Barry and John Locker (2001) 'The Ninteenth-Century
Decline of Custom and its Impact on Theories of 'Workplace Theft' and
'White Collar' Crime' in Northern History 38

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Robb, George (2006) 'Women and White-Collar Crime' British Journal of Criminology (forthcoming)

Channon, Geoffrey (1999) 'The Business Morals of British Railway Companies in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Business and Economic History 28(2)

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institutionalisation of ambiguity: the case of the early factory
acts’ in M. Fitzgerald et al. eds Crime and Society: readings in History and Theory London: Routledge (chapter 7)